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In the later years of the [[Qing Dynasty]], he entered the [[New Army]] as a officer in training upon graduation from military institute. As his superior [[Feng Yu Xiang]] partcipated the [[Northern Expedition]], he assumed the head of 4th division and Chairman of [[Shanxi]] province.

After the abortive [[coup d'etat]] in [[1930]] of Feng against [[Chiang Kai-shek]], he switched side to [[Kuomintang]]. His troops was assigned as 24th Army and garrisoned southern [[Shanxi]] province where he is responsible for the frontiers of the [[YeheRehe]] and [[Chahaer]] provinces against the Japanese [[Manchukuo]].

Song was the chairman of [[Chahear]] province when Japan invaded the provinces in the end of year [[1932]]. Though equipped only with obsolete rifles and spears compared to the better armed Japanese, Song led the 24th army resisted the aggression in a war known as the [[War at the Great Wall]] (proper translation?). Japanese troops then entered the suburbs of [[Beijing]] and [[Tianjin]] after the predictable victory. Song was relieved from post but reinstalled as commander after the [[Ho-Umemura Agreement]].